KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Thursday was a special day at Zoo Knoxville when people gathered to celebrate the birthday of one of their slowest moving and sleepiest animals — Joe Sloth. He turned 3 years old on ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Vivien, the two-toed sloth at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, celebrated her third birthday Tuesday. The aviary threw Vivien a socially-distant birthday party complete with a ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Today, July 25, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo held a birthday party for now, ten-year-old Aysan the sloth. People lined up to celebrate the two-toed sloth entering double ...

Cincinnati Zoo's Lightning the Sloth is celebrating an extra special birthday this year as she awaits the birth of her first baby.Lightning is in the final weeks of her long 10-month gestation ...

With party hats, banners and a couple dozen cheering fans, Jennifer Lawrence celebrated a special birthday this week at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. You'd be forgiven if you assumed the party was ...

Photo via Toucan Rescue Ranch. Sloths are some of the most interesting animals to have ever graced the earth, and yet they remain quite the unknowable little critters. The group that contains sloths, ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Lightning, the expecting mother at the Cincinnati Zoo, is celebrating her 9th birthday Wednesday. The birthday girl is now in the final weeks of the 10-month pregnancy, the zoo ...

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